King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
Dagons house
"(1 Sam. 5:2), or Beth-dagon, as elsewhere rendered (Josh. 15:" "41; 19:27), was the sanctuary or temple of Dagon." "The Beth-dagon of Josh. 15:41 was one of the cities of the tribe "of Judah, in the lowland or plain which stretches westward. It" has not been identified. "The Beth-dagon of Josh. 19:27 was one of the border cities of Asher. "That of 1 Chr. 10:10 was in the western half-tribe of Manasseh, "where the Philistines, after their victory at Gilboa, placed" Saul's head in the temple of their god. (Comp. 1 Sam. 31:8-13).